A group of young, international writers were treated like literary rock stars earlier this week in Long Beach. A couple of hundred people gathered outside the Hotel Maya for the book launch of “Dear ...

The 150 "unteachable" students who Erin Gruwell taught in Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach aren't teens fighting violence, racism, poverty and gangs anymore. They're adults now.

“Freedom Writers Family” is a look behind the scenes at the making of the movie, and tries to push the idea that the cast shared similar experiences with Gruwell’s students growing up. Oddly, most of ...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Seven students’ stories went from the classroom to the “Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation” — a book that is distributed worldwide.

Educator and writer Erin Gruwell, the author of a book that inspired the academy award-winning movie, “Freedom Writers,” aims to be a catalyst for change. She will share her experiences as a teacher ...

FITCHBURG — Monty Tech students recently learned how a teacher from California used unconventional methods to turn lives around for students who many deemed “unteachable” and doomed to lives of ...

Another movie about a well-meaning, white-bread teacher thrust among the savages? No, not by a long shot. Although "Freedom Writers" is the latest in a long line of saint-saves-students stories, it ...

The teacher who inspired the 2007 Hilary Swank film still believes memoir writing is the best way to reach struggling students. Today, Gruwell runs the Freedom Writers Foundation, which aims to help ...

In "Freedom Writers," Hilary Swank plays a bright-eyed, enthusiastic teacher who skips into a slummy, scummy school crawling with seemingly impenetrable gangster kids. Through psychology and bizarre ...

''I'm a sucker for true stories — they're stranger than fiction," Hilary Swank has said about playing educator Erin Gruwell in Freedom Writers. Yet Swank's film feels less like a strange truth than ...